Lawyers for the family of Lolomanai Soakai, the young airport worker who died on an Oakland sidewalk in 2022 in the aftermath of a ghost chase — an unauthorized, undocumented police chase — have released video of the collision for the first time.
The 25-minute video, shocking and violent in nature, is a time-synchronized compilation of surveillance camera and body-worn camera footage that shows the chase that preceded the fatal collision, the collision itself, and the aftermath.
The footage shows Arnold Linaldi, a then-19-year-old driver, engaging in a sideshow at 42nd Avenue on June 25, 2022, then speeding away on International Boulevard with Oakland police officers Walid Abdelaziz and Jimmy Marin-Coronel in hot pursuit. The video tracks the two speeding vehicles, the crash and its aftermath, including images of Soakai as he lies motionless on the ground, blood pooling around his head, as his injured mother calls his name, asking for help…